Today is Friday, February 1, the 32nd day of 2013. There are 333 days left in the year.
1587 ― English queen Elizabeth I signs Mary Stuart’s death sentence
1789 ― Chinese troops driven out of Vietnam capital Thang Long
1884 ― First volume of the Oxford English Dictionary, A-Ant, published
1893 ― Thomas Edison completes world’s first movie studio (West Orange, N.J.)
1896 ― Giacomo Puccini’s Opera “La Boheme” premieres in Turin
1902 ― China’s empress Tzu-hsi forbids binding woman’s feet
1923 ― Fascists Voluntary Militia forms in Italy under Mussolini
1950 ― USSR demands condemnation of Emperor Hirohito for war crimes
1951 ― U.N. condemns People’s Republic of China as aggressor in Korea
1978 ― Director Roman Polanski skips bail and fled to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl